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• Audio from My OSCON Presentation

  Just finished creating a slidecast for my presentation from OSCON on the Open Web Foundation with audio from O'Reilly. So check it out if you actually want to hear what I said or download the mp3 . Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2008 12:12 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 2 Comments Filed under: technology, openwebfoundation

• Yahoo! Developer Network Video Conversation

  Chatted with the Tom Hughes-Croucher from the Yahoo! Developer Network about the Open Web Foundation and Facebook Connect while up at OSCON last week. Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:15 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology, facebook, conference, oscon, openwebfoundation

• Google Calendar gets CalDAV!

  Finally, two-way syncing with Google Calendar and iCal . Woot! Read More... Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 9:56 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology

• Facebook Connect and Movable Type

  Building a little on my last post, I spoke at f8 earlier today to demo integration of Facebook Connect with Movable Type (made by Six Apart who I work for). You can read more about it on the Six Apart blog , though I wanted to share a photo from Venture Beat's coverage of f8 which I think helps show how all this stuff is starting to get tied together (read the posts if you don't get it). Also cool to see Digg showing OpenID in their new login UI next to Facebook. Read More... Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:23 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology, facebook

• Facebook Connect Helps Make the Case for OpenID

  *** Hardt asks the question on his blog if Facebook Connect is a fatal blow to OpenID . I actually think that it helps to show why OpenID is going to become so valuable as you start to invest in your profile(s). To me, it shows that we're now all able to tell the same story and explain to normal people the value of having an identity and profile that can move about them around the web. Just as no one would let Microsoft own the protocol, no one is going to let Facebook either. I'm hoping that we'll Read More... Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:02 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, technology, facebook

• My OSCON Schedule

  Headed up to Portland this afternoon for OSCON and just put my schedule online if you want to check it out. I won't be there Wednesday as I'll be down at Facebook f8 for the day. Then back up Thursday for a 9:15am keynote on Supporting the Open Web ! Really busy week, with no sleep for me, but should be tons of fun and I look forward to seeing a bunch of awesome people! Read More... Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 3:23 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology, facebook, conference, oscon

• The Social Web TV: Meebo Community IM

  Shot another episode of The Social Web TV with John and Joseph yesterday. Focused mainly on Meebo's new Community IM and how it's continuing the trend of making the entire web more social. Check it out and I'll be at both Facebook f8 and OSCON next week. Read More... Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 12:10 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology

• TheSocialWeb.TV Pilot Episode

  Late last week I ventured down to the South Bay and shot the first episode of TheSocialWeb.TV along with John McCrea and Joseph Smarr. All sorts of things have been happening over the past year when it comes to the Social Web (or more generally the Open Web) yet it isn't easy to know what's going on if you're not in the thick of it. So we turned to Gary Vaynerchuck for some inspiration as his daily show Wine Library TV kicks ass and illustrates how social media continues to evolve and the tools to Read More... Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 3:28 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology

• Sweet, My Dopplr Public Profile!

  I love being a Dopplr Alpha tester! I've been wanting a public profile for quite awhile. They've provided all sorts of customization so I can share as much or as little as I'd like. Read More... Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 1:18 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology

• Unraveling Comment Threads Programatically

  TechCrunch just posted about how Seesmic Hijacks Comments With Threaded Replies which continues a trend of concern around conversations becoming fragmented as more social aggregation services are launched. Seesmic offers video commenting on blogs and now allows someone to "respond to a Seesmic video by hitting a reply button with in the embeddable Seesmic player, and all the responses can be seen as video thumbnails if you mouse over the bottom of the player’s screen." (Mike, a check for $17.50 is Read More... Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 12:46 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology, xmpp, open web

• It Seems that Google and Facebook Still Can't Get Connected

  With Chris Messina sharing some of his thoughts on Facebook's notion of "dynamic privacy" , it seems worth pointing out that Facebook is still blocking Google FriendConnect after they started blocking it back in May . FriendConnect from Google now displays "[Facebook button] - Disabled by Facebook" and also gives you the ability to choose your privacy settings for each site you're sharing with . With Facebook talking so much about Facebook Connect here at Graphing Social Patterns I'm wondering how Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:23 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology, facebook, google

• More Thoughts on Facebook's usage of the CPAL as a "Poison Pill"

  In my post yesterday on the Open Web I referenced an article by Matt Assay of CNet entitled Facebook adopts the CPAL poison pill . This morning Dare Obasanjo (glad he's back to blogging!) shared his thoughts on this CNet article articulating how Matt's premise around the advertising clause is "pretty ridiculous". To me it isn't about the "advertising clause" but rather around how the CPAL defines "External Distribution" in section 15. Using fbOpen as an example, what the CPAL states is that just Read More... Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 1:38 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: open source, technology, facebook

• "We support the Open Web"

  Maybe it's how amazing it is to see what is happening with the Presidential Election which is getting me all excited, but I have to say I'm feeling very patriotic about the future of the Open Web. A lot has happened over the past year and the Open Web is increasingly in the limelight. There are a growing number of companies that you'd never think about having strategies to deal with the Open Web -- except maybe to thwart it -- who are embracing it and working collaboratively, building real communities, Read More... Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:11 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: technology, open web

• Joseph Smarr and I Talk About Real Social Tech Around the World

  Last Saturday I was in Hangzhou China speaking at the 2nd China Internet Developer's Conference put on by Alibaba which is partially owned by Yahoo!. Nob (from Six Apart Japan) shot some video when I was speaking. Check out the four minute clip below where I talk about how relationships can be stored online within globally segregated social networks or with the open standards FOAF and the Microformat XFN. I then demo the Google Social Graph API to start painting the picture of how it is no longer Read More... Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 3:52 AM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, technology, OAuth, conference

• Ian Forrester Interviews me at XTech (Six Apart, XMPP, and OpenID)

  Ian Forrester interviews me at XTech hitting on what I do at Six Apart, my keynote on building open platforms ( slides ), the session on XMPP, and branding OpenID for the mainstream. Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:08 PM from David Recordon's Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, technology, xmpp, xtech